Ross Traverse talks about the use of root cellars in Newfoundland for keeping items like berries etc. Along with root vegetables; discusses how root cellars were cold storage that did not freeze that was ideal for storing potatoes which was the...

Irene Toms discusses history of Rattling Brook area. She discusses Gull Island. She discusses her family history. She discusses living on subsistence farming and hunting seabirds in isolate area of Shoe Cove and Tilt Cove. She discusses living...

Harris Rideout discusses life in outports. He discusses pre-confederation stories. He discusses Twillingate and its history. He also discusses the Stirling family. He discusses his family history, as well as the Beothuks and the Peyton family. He...

David Taylor interviewing Eleazor Reid regarding boatbuilding, Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Reid discusses how he, his father, and his brothers were fishers. He discusses how he learned boatbuilding by watching his brothers, and...

An Evening with Century Farmers: The Rubys and Lesters, with stories and memories of farms and farming traditions past, present and future. Recorded as part of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador's Seeds to Supper Folklife...

John Kennedy tells a little about himself including how long he has lived where he does and what he does for a living; he describes what a root cellar is and describes his own; talks about the land originally belonging to his great, great...

Minnie Smith discusses Twillingate history and what it was like when she was young. She discusses family history and storied: her father was a police officer in Twillingate for 40 years. She discusses what life was like in Twillingate many years...

Minnie Smith discusses Twillingate history and what it was like when she was young. She discusses family history and storied: her father was a police officer in Twillingate for 40 years. She discusses what life was like in Twillingate many years...

Philip Pardy discusses family history. He also discusses local history of Cobb's Arm area. He discusses the isolation, no roads or electricity. He discusses using boats in the summer and dogsleds in the winter. He discusses working for the...

Julie Genge discusses her family history. She discusses and tells stories of her childhood, including pasttimes and recollections of Christmas. She discusses the history of the Deadmans' Cove/Stump Cove area. She discusses living in an isolated...

Interview with Moses Tucker by Monique McGrath and Jordan Zalis as part of a Collective Memories Mug Up project conducted by Memorial University students enrolled in FOLK 6740: Public Folklore, Winter 2017.

Elizabeth White discusses the history of Norris Arm and St. Brendon's. She discusses living in Boston in the United States. She discusses her family history. She discusses breaking her back while hanging clothes. She discusses Christmas customs.

Bessie Stuckless discusses her family history. She discusses the local history of Triton and of Twillingate areas. She discusses working for families (cleaning/cooking), and working for her mother-in-law. She discusses teh hardships of the...

John Freake discusses Christmas traditions and customs. He discusses how when young there would not be dances and such, but young men having fights. John Freake discusses with Hiram Silk beginning to fish with his father at the age of 11, as well...

Dora Ball discusses Strait of Bell Isle, Nameless Cove and Northern Penisula. She discusses the changes in that area in her lifetime. She discusses family history. She discusses cutting wood and fishing. She discusses shipwreck remains in Cox's...